2023 WORLD AQUATICS CHAMPIONSHIPS
- July 23 to 30, 2023
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WOMEN’S 50 BREASTSTROKE — PRELIMS
- World Record: 29.30 — Benedetta Pilato, Italy (2021)
- Championship Record: 29.40 — Lilly King, United States (2017)
- World Junior Record: 29.30 — Benedetta Pilato, Italy (2021)
- 2022 Winning Time: 29.70 — Ruta Meilutyte, Lithuania
- 2022 Top 16 Time: 31.02
200 breast World Champion Tatjana Schoenmaker has scratched the semi-final of the women’s 50 breast at the 2023 World Championships, making room for her South African teammate and defending bronze medalist Lara Van Niekerk to qualify.
In the prelims of the 50 breast, Van Niekerk dove in too deep on her start and ended up clocking a time of 30.76, over a second off her personal best of 29.73. She finished 17th, and would have been the first one out had Schoenmaker not scratched.
The 50 breast marks Van Niekerk’s first semi-final at these World Championships, as she placed 18th in the 100 breast with a time of 1:07.03. At the 2022 Worlds, she was 13th in the 100 breast in addition to her podium finish in the 50 breast.
Schoenmaker had qualified for the semi-final in 14th with a time of 30.70. She’s seen more success in the longer breaststroke events though, having taken silver in the 100 breast and gold in the 200 breast.
Van Niekerk sounds like a fast surname
well that paid off
Schoenmaker has always been a very nice young lady.
Love the South African comradery 🇿🇦
Reminds me of the 200m freestyle in ’94 in Rome, when van Almsick didn’t qualify for the final but Hase did… and then scratched/was told to scratch. Van Almsick then swam a world record, which would stand for 8 years, only to be broken by herself.
Anyway, Hase got a bouquet of flowers for it from the German swimming federation. She wasn’t happy.
Part of me thinks it was an obvious decision because she’s not going to win a medal. But the other part thinks Tatjana knows she can’t win a relay medal (or probably even final) so she’s just given up her last finals session opportunity. That’s pretty classy
Who says swimming isn’t a team sport ?
Not a surprise from Tatjana, she is a classy team player and knows Lara has a much much better chance of a medal then she does.